NaNoWriMo Mathematics

I’ve had my triumphs and issues with NaNoWriMo in the last few years. But as I have mentioned before, I have never completed NaNoWriMo, the traditional, November version.

And that’s okay. Because, in terms of NaNoWriMo mathematics, I still came out ahead.

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While at Sirens Conference this year, something very important stood out in Yoon Ha Lee’s keynote. It’s something I want to remind myself of again and again as I do NaNoWriMo this November. So I wanted to share it.

Every day, you just have to beat zero words.

That’s it. That is all there is to NaNoWriMo mathematics.

As long as you beat zero, your effort will add up. Even if it’s one word. 1 + 1 + 1 …still adds up to more than zero.

0 + 0 + 0 + 0… will never add up to anything more.

So get out of your head and get the words on the page. You can figure out the good and the bad later, the keepers and the scrapped later.

Just beat zero.

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